Hi all, AC3 students are holding a workshop on Free Software on Sunday. The workshop is from 9:30am to 4pm. Here is the schedule. All sessions are by local youth from the slum community . The local youth came up with the idea to create more enthusiasim amongst youth for computers and free software in their community.
Folks interested in imparting free software skills to slum youth is a big need. if you are constrained your ideas also will be of lot of help. you can contact sarasu / mani. thanks MANI: 9916464280 SARASU:9535151226 9:30 - 9:45 Introduction 9:45 - 9:50 Song 9:50 - 10:00 Overview on the workshop 10:00 - 10:45 Introduction on free software. Sarasu 11:00 - 11:45 GIMP. Mani 11:45 - 11:55 Tea break 11:55 - 12pm Song by Anitha 12pm - 12:45 A session on copyright, patents, etc. 1:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:15 Demo on various tools. Jeeva 2:15 - 2:30 A small skid. Team 2:30 - 3:30 Open office presentation. Jeeva 3:30 - 4pm Concluding session and feedback We are expecting a minimum of 20 students to attend this workshop. We need all your laptops on that day with possibly Ubuntu on it installed with following softwares. 1. GCompri 2. Text editor. With SCIM tamil/kannada typing enabled. 3. Calculator 4. Kalziyum 5. Open universe simulator 6. Tux paint 7. All internet tools 8. Video/audio tools 9. Some games. Please commit your laptops by email and make sure the laptop reaches the center by Saturday before 3pm. This will give us time make sure all software that we are looking for is installed and working. Thanks Balaji
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